How Duolingo grew enormously from 5M to 200Mn users in 5 years
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How Duolingo grew enormously from 5M to 200M users in 5 years using product-led growth.
At volumes of millions, it’s impossible to grow sustainably without ensuring retention. Such was also the philosophy of Duolingo’s then VP Growth, @ginag.
Alongwith growing users from outside, Gina decided to double down on growing users from inside. Enter: product-led growth [Read the rest]
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Philips moves Delhi High Court, files patent infringement case against Xiaomi India and accuses it of violating 3 of its patents.
The Delhi HC orders Xiaomi to maintain a bank balance of Rs. 1,000 crore on or before December 2.
India joins a club of countries where the Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) system is available round the clock.
In order to boost digital payments, RBI had already stopped levying charges on RTGS transactions.
The UP government has slashed the price of the RT-PCR test to detect Covid-19 by private labs from Rs. 1600 to Rs. 700 and said it will cost Rs. 900, if done at home.
The Gujarat government has slashed the price of the RT-PCR test to detect Covid-19 by private labs from Rs. 1500 to Rs. 800 and said it will cost Rs. 1,100 if done at home.
The Supreme Court has refused to interfere with the Bombay High Court’s order dismissing Chanda Kochhar’s plea against her termination as CEO & MD.
The SC has ruled that the plea was within the ambit of a private contract between Chanda Kochhar and ICICI and thus, not maintainable.
Sleep by Wysa wins Google Play’s ‘best app of 2020’ prize. A sleep improvement app developed by Indian entrepreneur Jo Aggarwal’s start-up has won the title of the best app of 2020.
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Salesforce.com has announced acquisition of the workplace communication app, Slack for $27.7 billion, their biggest ever buy.
Instagram launches ‘Live Rooms’ feature; Live Rooms gives the users a chance to go live, create a room and add 3 users to a session.
Winklevoss twins have said that Bitcoin will be the asset of the decade and will soar to $50,000; they say that Bitcoin is gold 2.0 and will have a market cap of $9 trillion.
Artificial intelligence group DeepMind using its latest AI algorithm, AlphaFold has cracked a 50 year old biology problem.
AlphaFold has now shown that it can predict how proteins fold into 3D shapes.
Facebook-backed cryptocurrency Libra has been rebranded "Diem" in an effort to seek regulatory approval and to show its independence.
The group has been readying a currency that will be called the Diem dollar.
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